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The wisdom of clods
[drum roll] The results and purpose behind my company familiarity survey. The price of ignorance: http://qurl.com/stocks -
Survey
Apols for spamming people across multiple social platforms (I imagine someone flinging tins of spam across the tracks at Oxford station), but...
Please take my survey about how familiar you are with certain companies www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22ES7F3XPME (will share results in due course) pls pass on!
Though no one reads LJ any more anyway, do they ( Read more... ) -
Shaking spears at each other
To question, or not to question. That is to be…
A recent conversation at LiveJournal prompted me to revisit the whole ‘authorship of Shakespeare’s works’ malarkey. As I commented there, I had always been firmly convinced that the Man from Stratford wrote the plays, and found things such as Baconian ciphers preposterous (in fact, I even found one of ( Read more... ) -
Re-reverb, not fade away
Morning. Remember how young sillage and I started a little publishing company waaay back in 2005? Well, yeah, it was never exactly a roaring success, despite some nice publicity.
Anyway, one of our authors and now a prized friend, Craig (now 'CM Taylor', to distinguish from the Guardian writer with the same name) has done good - he's had an agent for a ( Read more... ) -
A standing renovation
Hello world. I haven't written here since April, apart from a one-liner on my birthday to announce the death of our cat. It's been that sort of a summer. I can't remember a tougher, more challenging year, with a crazy mixture of masses of work, and often nowhere to do it from: after leaving Kidlington in June, we lived in a mobile home park for ( Read more... ) -
Requiescat
Alas, as some of you know via Twitter, our dear furry chum milocat no longer has an account, as it were. He had aggressive spondylosis, and latterly was unable to walk properly.
